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A satirical video believed to mock “the speed of Japan’s disaster recovery” has surpassed 6.76 million views on China’s video site bilibili, and it’s become a hot topic on 5ch too. The clip pokes fun at a Japan whose response supposedly amounts to nothing but repeating “under consideration” and “under adjustment.” On 5ch, some wryly admitted “it gets plenty wrong, but I can’t fully deny how pathetic it is,” while others responded coldly with “we’re just being mocked, that’s all.”
What people said
Title: "All Clear: It's precisely when every Japanese person says 'we're fine' that you know it's a real problem."
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2088628401255104512/vid/avc1/1280×720/0bHCjC6fhniwHPbv.mp4?tag=14
We're just being mocked, that's all.
the mindset being "we'll figure it out when it happens."
In Japan it'd probably take a week just to track down the owner.
They really do have a knack for taking a critical angle on things and turning it into content.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1731634155237371904/pu/vid/avc1/720×1128/iARXbujIu7RxXAvh.mp4?tag=12
They portray the US as basically a god.
Kind of love that part.
Really now?
That's because there's no way to confirm they're alive and no reason to think they are —
basically "definitely dead, but we can't investigate, so just let us bury it."
One in four young people there is unemployed — college grads working as delivery drivers.
For some reason disaster recovery is the one thing the government actually handles properly.
Wasn't the Olympic torch relay during the Tokyo Games just tidied up along the route to make it look like Tohoku earthquake recovery was finished, even though it clearly wasn't?
The most recent disaster in China involved opening floodgates with zero warning, killing residents, clamping down on media coverage, doing no rescue work at all, and jailing anyone who posted the truth on social media — it feels like a completely different level.
International news kicks off bashing the US → Japan → Europe and Korea,
in that order.
Then come the feel-good stories about Belt and Road partner countries.
Keep watching that and your self-esteem probably shoots right up.
Sounds basically like exactly what "our great nation" does. (a sarcastic 5ch term for Japan itself, mocking its own state-media-style spin)
At the top they're going toe-to-toe with the US on flashy, well-publicized robots and AI and cutting-edge tech,
but at the bottom it's a level you can't even imagine.
A country that can build AI models but can never quite manage to unclog a drainpipe — that's China.
Apparently there's a country out there that can't even build an AI model and still gets wrecked by heavy rain.
Honestly, I didn't get it either 😂😂
I figured that died out after COVID.
We send and receive faxes every single day where I work.
Background and Key Points
Chinese satire targeting Japan’s disaster response draws on a well-worn set of grievances that go back further than this one video. The most cited touchstones are the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake/tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident, and, more recently, the Noto Peninsula earthquake of January 2024, where reconstruction was criticized as sluggish and bureaucratic — residents in temporary housing more than a year on, permits and compensation still “under review.” That slow-moving, consensus-driven bureaucracy is exactly what the bilibili video (6.76 million views) is skewering with its refrain of “under consideration” and “under adjustment,” alongside older punchlines like fax machines and senbazuru (paper cranes) sent as token relief. The same creator apparently also made an earlier video mocking Japan’s handling of the Fukushima treated-water release, suggesting a recurring style rather than a one-off.
The thread’s real fault line isn’t over whether the video is funny — several posters concede it lands — but over what mocking it is worth as a rebuttal. One camp treats “we’re just being mocked” as sufficient dismissal; another counters that China’s own disasters (unannounced dam/floodgate openings, media blackouts, no rescue effort, arrests for posting the truth) are objectively worse, making the satire hypocritical rather than wrong.
What outsiders likely miss: this isn’t grassroots-only content. Chinese state and state-adjacent media have a documented pattern of directing international coverage toward criticizing the US, Japan, Europe and Korea while suppressing domestic disaster news — several posters reference this dynamic explicitly. The video’s polish (AI-assisted production, a Chinese creator fluent in Japan’s cultural details) also cuts against reading it as purely spontaneous fan commentary.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyō G board) thread “A satirical video made by a Chinese creator mocking “the speed of Japan’s disaster recovery” becomes a hot topic.”
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